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The promises and perils of mining GitHub

by Eirini Kalliamvakou, Georgios Gousios, Kelly Blincoe, Leif Singer, Daniel M. German, Daniela Damian - in MSR. ACM
"... With over 10 million git repositories, GitHub is becoming one of the most important source of software artifacts on the Internet. Researchers are starting to mine the infor-mation stored in GitHub’s event logs, trying to understand how its users employ the site to collaborate on software. However, s ..."
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, pull requests, and issues. Our results indi-cate that, while GitHub is a rich source of data on software development, mining GitHub for research purposes should take various potential perils into consideration. We show, for example, that the majority of the projects are personal and inactive; that GitHub
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